Mumbai Police Arrests Unmarried Woman For Throwing Her Newborn Girl In Dustbin

Police nabbed the woman from Dharavi after they saw the CCTV footage of the hospital in which she was seen roaming around the toilet where the infant's body was found.

Mumbai police arrests woman who threw her newborn girl in dustbin, leading to her infant's death.

Source : PTI

Days after the body of a newborn girl was found in the toilet waste of Mumbai's Sion Hospital, the Mumbai police has arrested a 23-year-old unmarried woman in connection with the case. According to police, the woman was seen wandering near the toilet in the CCTV footage of the hospital and was detained from Dharavi. She confessed to her crime during questioning, the police said, quoted ANI. As per police, she did so to hide the fact of becoming a mother outside wedlock.

On December 8, the body of the infant was found and the doctors immediately examined the newborn and she was declared dead. Police later registered a case in the matter and began an investigation. They found from the CCTV that she was roaming around the toiled where the body of the girl was found in a dustbin.

Mumbai's Sion Police arrested a 23-year-old woman in connection with the body of a newborn girl that was found in Mumbai's Sion Hospital on Dec 8. In the CCTV footage installed in the hospital, the woman was seen wandering near the toilet. Police detained the woman from the… https://t.co/GKOTbjYnJj

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"The woman took this step to hide ignominy of unwed motherhood. CCTV footage of the vicinity showed her walking suspiciously near the toilet. She was nabbed from Dharavi, where she stays, and confessed to the crime during questioning," an official told PTI.

According to the report, the woman has been charged under Indian Penal Code sections 315 (act done with intent to prevent child being born alive or to cause it to die after birth) and 317 (exposure of a child under 12 years of age by parent or person having care of it with intention of wholly abandoning it).